MdW – Movies directed by Women
MdW (visual) movie rating
Good humor
Feel-good movie with too many characterizations and un-worked facets to have a greater impact than entertaining
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,2
Metascore 6,2
Roger Ebert 5,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,4
IMDB 6,9
TMDB 6,5
Critics average 5,8
Audience average 6,9
Cast: Peter Mullan, Brenda Blethyn, Billy Boyd
Director: Gaby Dellal
Writer: Alex Rose
Music by Stephen Warbeck
Cinematography by David Johnson
Film Editing by Robin Sales, John Wilson
Excellent minority representation
A story for children with an ambitious script and many connotations, but irregularly directed and awfully static at times
Very special racially-mixed cast
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 4,9
Metascore 4,0
Roger Ebert 1,3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 4,6
IMDB 5,7
TMDB 6,3
Average critics 3,4
Average public 5,5
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Carter Thomas, Ava Fillery, Derek Jacobi, Michael Caine
Director: Brenda Chapman
Writer: Marissa Kate Goodhill
Music by John Debney
Cinematography by Jules O’Loughlin
Film Editing by Dody Dorn
Good gender content and expression
Interesting contrast between two women having a new relationship: one is a housewife in the 1960s, the other one a 2000s assertive young woman
The musical score using songs of the 1960s does not bring anything to the movie and makes it more of a cliché
Chaotic and bland direction
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,5
Metascore 5,7
Roger Ebert 6,3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,4
IMDB 6,8
TMDB 7,5
Critics average 5,8
Audience average 7,2
Cast: Shailene Woodley, Joe Alwyn, Wendy Nottingham
Director: Augustine Frizzell
Writers: Nick Payne, Esta Spalding, Jojo Moyes
Music by Daniel Hart
Cinematography by George Steel
Film Editing by Melanie Oliver
Good direction and gender content
Top images and minority presence
The Gullah, a community of African-Americans on Ibo Island off the coast of Virginia in 1902.
The women are all dressed in white and seem to be in charge.
A world of traditions that has difficulty integrating the modern world
The story is told as a patchwork of loose memories during a picknick by the sea
Sometimes too theatrical, and the music, though good, does not always fit the time and place
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,8
Metascore 8,1
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,2
IMDB 6,6
TMDB 6,9
Critics average 7,8
Audience average 6,9
Cast: Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers, Barbarao
Director: Julie Dash
Writer: Julie Dash
Music by John Barnes
Cinematography by Arthur Jafa
Film Editing by Joseph Burton, Amy Carey
Good personages, dialogues, minority presence, and expression
Excellent direction
Top gender content and message
An eye-opener for those who (like me) are not familiar with this disorder and the way people affected with it see the world, applying a very different kind of logic…
Remarkable is that a boy was included in this mainly female universe
Pity that some personages were a bit too furtively sketched
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,6
Metascore 6,4
Roger Ebert 6,3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,0
IMDB 6,8
TMDB 7,2
Critics average 6,4
Audience average 7,0
Cast: Rebekah Kennedy, Lily Collins, Dana L. Wilson
Director: Marti Noxon
Writer: Marti Noxon
Cinematographer: Richard Wong
Editor: Elliot Greenberg
Composer: Fil Eisler
Good personages, humor, images, music, and gender content
Excellent direction and expression
Top minority presence and message
Sober but impressive
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,4
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 7,2
TMDB 6,8
Critics average 8,4
Audience average 7,0
Cast: Sharon Ishpatao Fontaine, Yamie Grégoire, Étienne Galloy
Director: Myriam Verreault
Writers: Naomi Fontaine, Myriam Verreault
Music by Louis-Jean Cormier
Cinematography by Nicolas Canniccioni
Film Editing by Amélie Labrèche, Sophie Leblond, Myriam Verreault
Good images and music
Lengthy passages
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,0
Metascore 7,0
Roger Ebert 5,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 9,0
IMDB 5,4
TMDB 5,9
Critics average 6,3
Audience average 6,8
Cast: Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Anna Maguire, Jesse LaVercombe
Directors: Dusty Mancinelli, Madeleine Sims-Fewer
Writers: Dusty Mancinelli, Madeleine Sims-Fewer
Cinematographer: Adam Crosby
Composer: Andrea Boccadoro
Good script, personages, direction, images, and expression
Top gender content, minority representation and message
A tribute to Kurdish female fighters
IMDB 6,0
Original title: Soeurs d’Armes
Cast: Dilan Gwyn, Amira Casar, Camélia Jordana
Director: Caroline Fourest
Writer: Caroline Fourest
Music by Mathieu Lamboley
Cinematography by Stéphane Vallée
Film Editing by Audrey Simonaud
Good script, personages, direction, images, music, and gender content
A 16-year-old girl mourns the death of her mother while discovering sex and losing her virginity. A chaotic world in which she tries to define herself, while the others have difficulty understanding her.
An integer movie without the usual cliches
Fine use of music
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,3
Metascore 7,2
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,0
IMDB 5,4
TMDB 6,0
Average critics 7,3
Average public 6,5
Cast: Jessica Barr, Katie Prentiss, Claire Manning
Director: Jessie Barr
Writers: Jessica Barr, Jessie Barr
Music by Nate Heller
Cinematography by Scott Miller
Film Editing by Naomi Sunrise Filoramo
Good script, personages, dialogues, direction, images,
minority representation, message, and expression
A simple message – helping others is a powerful way to help oneself – brought in a beautiful setting
“To survive you first have to die” could have been a second title
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,6
Metascore 6,2
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,4
IMDB 6,6
TMDB 7,4
Critics average 6,8
Audience average 7,5
Cast: Robin Wright, Demián Bichir, Sarah Dawn Pledge
Directed by Robin Wright
Writing Credits: Jesse Chatham, Erin Dignam
Music by Ben Sollee, Time for Three
Cinematography by Bobby Bukowski
Film Editing by Anne McCabe, Mikkel E.G. Nielsen
Good script, humor, direction, music, gender content, minority representation, and expression
Excellent personages, dialogues and images
Top message
To deal with alcohol abuse, a young male adult has to come to term with his youth and his relationship with his father
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,7
Metascore 7,3
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,8
IMDB 7,3
TMDB 7,2
Critics average 7,9
Audience average 7,8
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges, Noah Jupe
Director: Alma Har’el
Writer: Shia LaBeouf
Music by Alex Somers
Cinematography by Natasha Braier
Film Editing by Dominic La Perriere, Monica Salazar
Good dialogues, images, and music
Excellent script, personages, and direction
Top gender content, message, and expression
A girl who has been kidnapped at a very young age and has spent all of her childhood with her abductor is suddenly ‘freed’ (now aged 22) and returns to her parents who are total strangers to her… She is lost and feels completely abandoned. Her mother who has lost her once realizes that she’s losing her a second time…
SPOILER ahead! To get her daughter back, the mother recreates the condition of dependence and attachment that the abductor had created in the first place in order to develop in her daughter a second Stockholm syndrome.
Great acting
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 4,6
Metascore 4,7
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,0
IMDB 6,0
TMDB 5,4
Critics average 4,7
Audience average 5,8
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Cynthia Nixon, Jason Isaacs
Director: Nikole Beckwith
Writer: Nikole Beckwith
Music by Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum, Brian McOmber
Cinematography by Arnaud Potier
Film Editing by Joe Klotz
Good direction and music
Excellent personages and minority representation
A coming of age story in which a 13-year-old girl feels responsible for the people she cares for
Great acting by Sophia Mitri Schloss, her presence captivates
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,9
Metascore 6,2
Roger Ebert 5,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 9,4
IMDB 5,7
TMDB 7,5
Critics average 6,0
Audience average 7,5
Cast: Sophia Mitri Schloss, Melanie Lynskey, John Gallagher Jr., Danielle Brooks, Tony Hale
Director: Megan Griffiths
Writer: Megan Griffiths
Cinematographer: T.J. Williams Jr.
Editor: Celia Beasley
Composer: Mike McCready
Good dialogues, images, music, and minority presence
Excellent script, personages, direction, and message
Top gender content
As in Lea Pool’s later movies, the relationship mother-daughter is a central theme, shown as a key element to the development of the child, while the fatherly figure is depicted as a loser and a source of conflict / Excellent acting
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,3
Metascore 8,0
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,4
IMDB 7,1
TMDB 6,3
Critics average 7,6
Audience average 6,9
Cast: Karine Vanasse, Alexandre Merineau, Pascale Bussieres, Miki Manojlovic, Charlotte Christeler, Nancy Huston
Written and Directed by Lea Pool
Music by Robyn Schulkowsky
Cinematography by Jeanne Lapoirie
Film Editing by Michel Arcand
Good gender content
With this third movie, a recurring theme appears in transparency, as a watermark, through the work of Anne Sewitsky: love does not respect any (social) boundaries. In her first movie, all the personages transgress these limits. In her second movie, the “taboo” concerns the love of a ten-year-old girl for a boy of her class. Finally, this third movie is about the incestuous love between a young woman and her half-brother. A series about trespassing love!
The Norwegian title of this third movie can be translated by “the nearest,” a title that fits the movie much better than the official ‘public-pleasing ‘homesick’.
Again, an original musical score (although less so than in Happy, Happy)
Rotten Tomatoes Critics —
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 5,7
TMDB 4,9
Critics average —
Audience average 5,3
Cast: Ine Marie Wilmann, Simon J. Berger, Anneke von der Lippe
Director: Anne Sewitsky
Writers: Anne Sewitsky, Ragnhild Tronvoll
Music by Ginge Anvik
Cinematography by Daniel Voldheim
Film Editing by Christoffer Heie
Unconvincing feminist plagiarism of a classic film noir, with a few good twists
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,6
Metascore 6,2
Roger Ebert 5,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,2
IMDB 6,6
TMDB 6,0
Critics average 5,0
Audience average 6,3
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Tatiana Maslany, Sebastian Stan, Bradley Whitford, Toby Kebbell, Scoot McNairy, Toby Huss
Director: Karyn Kusama
Writer: Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi
Cinematographer: Julie Kirkwood
Editor: Plummy Tucker
Composer: Theodore Shapiro
Weak script and dialogues
Poor message
A woman, her daughter, her granddaughter, and her son sharing secrets that are veiled in mystery but are so empty when revealed…
Rotten Tomatoes Critics —
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 5,9
TMDB 6,0
Critics average —
Audience average 6,0
Cast: Natalia Dyer, Shawn Hatosy, Frances Conroy
Director: Alex O Eaton
Writer: Alex O Eaton
Cinematography by Ashley Connor
Film Editing by Kate Abernathy
Good dialogues and minority representation
Excellent personages
A good story but the direction could have been more dynamic… just as the music. All in all, a bit boring
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,3
Metascore 4,7
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,8
IMDB 7,1
TMDB 6,8
Critics average 6,0
Audience average 7,6
Original title: Als Hitler das Rosa Kaninchen stahl
Cast: Riva Krymalowski, Marinus Hohmann, Carla Juri, Oliver Masucci
Directed by Caroline Link
Writers: Anna Brüggemann, Judith Kerr, Caroline Link
Music by Volker Bertelmann
Cinematography by Bella Halben
Film Editing by Patricia Rommel
Weak script
Good images
Still wondering what this movie is all about…
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,0
Metascore 7,3
Roger Ebert 0,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 5,2
IMDB 6,4
TMDB 5,6
Critics average 4,8
Audience average 5,7
Original title: Dao Khanong
Cast: Visra Vichit-Vadakan, Arak Amornsupasiri, Achtara Suwan
Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong
Writer: Anocha Suwichakornpong
Music by Wuttipong Leetrakul
Cinematography by Ming-Kai Leung
Film Editing by Lee Chatametikool, Aacharee Ungsriwong
Weak script
Good images and music
Anocha Suwichakornpong is certainly not the most accessible director. Mumdane History, her first feature, giives a good idea of why her work is so peculiar. Mundane History is easier to grap than her second feature: the same personages are used from the beinning to the end, and the editing makes the story not less but more comprehensible. The story, however, remains a mystery to me.
Rotten Tomatoes Critics —
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,4
IMDB 6,7
TMDB 5,2
Critics average —
Audience average 6,1
Cast: Arkaney Cherkam, Paramej Noiam, Anchana Ponpitakthepkij
Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong
Writer: Anocha Suwichakornpong (screenplay)
Cinematography by Ming-Kai Leung
Film Editing by Lee Chatametikool
A series of scenes that have very little to bind them together, with too many things going on
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,7
Metascore 6,1
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,6
IMDB 5,1
TMDB 5,4
Average critics 6,8
Average public 5,7
Cast: Hannah Pearl Utt, Ayden Mayeri, Oona Yaffe
Director: Hannah Pearl Utt
Writers: Jen Tullock, Hannah Pearl Utt
Music by Ryan Tullock
Cinematography by Jon Keng
Film Editing by Kent Kincannon
Good images, gender content, minority representation and expression
A story that could have had more impact without the historical (WW2) setting and the superfluous flashback
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,5
Metascore 5,6
Roger Ebert 6,3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,0
IMDB 7,0
TMDB 7,8
Average critics 6,1
Average public 7,6
Cast: Gemma Arterton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Penelope Wilton
Director: Jessica Swale
Writer: Jessica Swale
Music by Volker Bertelmann
Cinematography by Laurie Rose
Film Editing by Tania Reddin
Good script and direction
Excellent gender content and message
Top minority representation
A good balance between drama and comedy
Rotten Tomatoes Critics —
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,2
IMDB 6,9
TMDB 4,7
Average critics —
Average public 6,3
Original title: Flores de Otro Mundo
Cast: José Sancho, Luis Tosar, Lissete Mejía
Director: Icíar Bollaín
Writers: Icíar Bollaín, Julio Llamazares
Music by Pascal Gaigne
Cinematography by Teo Delgado
Film Editing by Ángel Hernández Zoido
Good script, personages, images, humor, gender content, and expression
Excellent direction
Another version of Bonnie and Clyde in which two individuals who haven’t been emotionally close to anyone before find each other and give meaning to each other’s life
Very good acting
Not a big success: is it because the main male character is impotent? 🙂
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,5
Metascore 6,9
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,2
IMDB 5,5
TMDB 5,2
Critics average 6,2
Audience average 5,6
Cast: Drew Barrymore, James Le Gros, Robert Greenberg
Director: Tamra Davis
Writer: Matthew Bright
Music by Ed Tomney
Cinematography by Lisa Rinzler
Film Editing by Kevin Tent
Good personages, humor, images, music, gender content, minority presence, and expression
Excellent script, dialogues and direction
The first half-hour is great, tense, constantly bouncing
This third feature by Berman and Pulcini brings some interesting perspective to their second movie, The Nanny Diaries, in which uninvolved motherhood and attachment are central themes. 10,000 Saint deals with uninvolved fatherhood and attchement… “a sensitive and interesting film” [Sheila O’Malley]
Great acting by Ethan Hawke
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,2
Metascore 6,2
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 5,8
IMDB 5,9
TMDB 5,9
Average critics 6,6
Average public 5,9
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld
Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Writers: Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman
Based on the novel by Eleanor Henderson
Music by Garth Stevenson
Cinematography by Ben Kutchins
Film Editing by Robert Pulcini
Good dialogues, direction, images and expression
The rich mix of images that are found in American Splendor is only used at the beginning of the movie, and a little bit at the end… The rest falls flat, but the anthropological touch gives the movie a fresh and original look
Certainly less adventurous and challenging than their first feature despite interesting themes such as attachment and parenting
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,0
Metascore 4,6
Roger Ebert 6,3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,6
IMDB 6,2
TMDB 6,2
Average critics 5,3
Average public 6,3
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney, Paul Giamatti
Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Writers: Emma McLaughlin , Nicola Kraus
Music by Mark Suozzo
Cinematography by Terry Stacey
Film Editing by Robert Pulcini
Good dialogues
Excellent personages, images and minority presence
Top direction and music
The continuous life struggles of Harvey Pekar, as a man and as an artist, told mixing live action and animation, actors and real personages, fiction and documentary, all of this perfectly engineered. A very special movie…
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,3
Metascore 9,0
Roger Ebert 10,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,0
IMDB 7,4
TMDB 7,2
Average critics 9,1
Average public 7,5
Cast: Paul Giamatti, Shari Springer Berman, Harvey Pekar
Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Writers: Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner
Music by Mark Suozzo
Cinematography by Terry Stacey
Film Editing by Robert Pulcini
Good script and images
Excellent humor, music and expression
Top personages, direction, gender content and minority representation
Lots of passion but very little tenderness (Otis Redding’s Try a Little Tenderness in the background)
Darnell Martin succeeded in making an energizing comedy during 100 minutes and 10 minutes of strong drama
Great acting by Lauren Velez
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,5
Metascore —
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,8
IMDB 6,9
TMDB 6,6
Average critics 7,5
Average public 7,4
Cast: Luna Lauren Velez, Jon Seda, Tomas Melly
Director: Darnell Martin
Writer: Darnell Martin
Music by Sergio George
Cinematography by Alexander Gruszynski
Film Editing by Peter C. Frank
Good script, dialogues and expression
Excellent message
Top direction, images, music, and minority presence
A second feature as explosive as the first one
A movie made 20 years before Black Lives Matter that has lost nothing of its scope and power and that so unfortunately still fits our time…
Great camera work
Rotten Tomatoes Critics —
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 9,2
IMDB 6,3
TMDB 5,3
Average critics —
Average public 6,9
Cast: Danny Hoch, Elvis Costello, Q-Tip
Director: Darnell Martin
Writers: Darnell Martin, Q-Tip
Cinematography by Alexander Gruszynski
Film Editing by Peter C. Frank
Weak music and poor direction
Top minority presence
A sketchy story that doesn’t get anywhere
Most children in this story have lost their parents, and you would think that’s a theme important enough to get deeper into it, but midway in the movie comes a new theme – an evil mining company wants to buy all the beautiful mountain land…
Boring music, infuriating editing, but the landscapes are nice 🙂
Rotten Tomatoes Critics —
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,6
IMDB 6,6
TMDB 6,9
Average critics —
Average public 7,0
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Mackenzie Foy, Josh Lucas
Director: Darnell Martin
Writers: David Baldacci
Music by Paul Cantelon
Cinematography by Frank Prinzi
Film Editing by Eric Wais
Good script, personages, dialogues and direction
Excellent message
A poetic coming of age story in the USSR, in which girls and boys are discovering new freedoms. This leads to a generational conflict between the teachers who defend the traditions and their students.
A movie about trust and understanding the other
IMDB 7,1
Original title: Klyuch bez prava peredachi
Cast: Elena Proklova, Aleksey Petrenko,
Director: Dinara Asanova
Writer: Georgi Polonsky
Music by Evgeniy Krylatov
Cinematography by Dmitriy Dolinin, Yuri Veksler
Film Editing by Galina Subayeva
Good script and dialogues
Excellent direction and images
Top music, gender content, minority representation and message
In New York in the 1980s, a group of women fights for equality and freedom and promote an egalitarian feminist revolution, but they have first to get women to understand their second class citizen position in society and the oppression they support by remaining silent. Excellent political content
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,8
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,8
IMDB 6,4
TMDB 6,4
Average critics 6,8
Average public 6,5
Cast: Honey, Adele Bertei, Jean Satterfield
Director: Lizzie Borden
Writer: Ed Bowes
Cinematography by Ed Bowes, Al Santana
Film Editing by Lizzie Borden
Good personages, dialogues, minority representation, and expression
Excellent direction
Top gender content
A day in the life of a sex worker…
but in the end, it’s not about sex, it’s all about power (Oscar Wilde), for it’s not enough for these men to pay for a woman’s body, they want to possess all of her… Of course, there’s no way they’re going to get anything else than what they paid for, and even if they pay more, as most of them offer, they won’t get more than her body.
A great mix of sex and gender roles…
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,2
Metascore —
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 6,5
TMDB 5,7
Average critics 7,4
Average public 6,1
Cast: Louise Smith, Ellen McElduff, Amanda Goodwin
Director: Lizzie Borden
Writers: Lizzie Borden
Music by David Van Tieghem
Cinematography by Judy Irola
Film Editing by Lizzie Borden
Good script, personages, images and message
Excellent expression
Top direction
Deconstructing a relationship after a fatal accident / using death to recover life
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,4
Metascore 6,8
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,0
IMDB 5,7
Average critics 7,3
Average public 6,9
Cast: Diego Luna, Sienna Miller, Beth Grant
Director: Tara Miele
Writer: Tara Miele
Music by Alex Weston
Cinematography by Carolina Costa
Film Editing by Tamara Meem, Alex O’Flinn
Good personages, dialogues, direction, gender content, message, and expression
Excellent script
An interesting game of mirrors with one woman having to choose between two men on the one hand, and one man having to choose between two women on the other hand, all of it taking place in the same space and within a couple of days.
Fine acting by Natasha Little
Rotten Tomatoes Critics —
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 5,7
TMDB 6,0
Average critics —
Average public 5,9
Cast: Natasha Little, Rupert Penry-Jones, Rachel Blanchard
Director: Joan Carr-Wiggin
Writer: Joan Carr-Wiggin
Music by Kenneth Harrison
Cinematography by Bruce Worrall
Also by directed by Joan Carr-Wiggin
Good script and humor
Excellent dialogues, images, gender content, and expression
Top personages, direction and message
An ambitious movie that realizes much of its potential. Its Shakespearean plot and twists are never too stretched to become ridiculous, especially since it is set in the 1920s, mainly because of the strongly delineated personages and excellent acting.
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 4,5
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,4
IMDB 6,2
TMDB 5,8
Average critics 4,5
Average public 6,1
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Madeleine Stowe, William Hurt
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter
Writer: Rick Ramage
Music by Stephen Endelman
Cinematography by Peter Sova
Film Editing by Jacqueline Cambas
Good personages, gender content and message
A group of four 12-year-old girlfriends discover that things are not always as they seem to be. Their childhood world of playing and believing is over…
Interesting work despite a chaotic direction
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,0
Metascore 5,0
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,2
IMDB 6,8
TMDB 6,8
Average critics 5,0
Average public 7,3
Cast: Christina Ricci, Demi Moore, Rosie O’Donnell
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter
Writer: I. Marlene King
Music by Cliff Eidelman
Cinematography by
Ueli Steiger
Film Editing by Jacqueline Cambas
Good minority presence
We’ve already been through this story before – a guy and a girl have to solve the problems of their past before thinking of a future together.
But in this version, the message is “you just have to kill your demons to be free”, and killing here is meant psychologically (mother-son) as well as in a real murder (set of course in a self-defense framework): an all too easy way out for a story whose premises deserved much better.
The direction is a bit fragile and the use of space at times too theatrical
IMDB 5,7
Cast: Bill Skarsgård, Delroy Lindo, Paula Malcomson
Director: Alison Eastwood
Writer: Anthea Anka
Cinematography by Dane Lawing
Film Editing by Gary Roach
Good personages, direction and message
A melodramatic story with a message that reminds us that it’s our capacity not to obey the rules and follow our instinct that make us human
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 4,6
Metascore 4,4
Roger Ebert 6,3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,8
IMDB 6,7
Average critics 5,1
Average public 6,8
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Marcia Gay Harden, Miles Heizer
Director: Alison Eastwood
Writer: Micky Levy
Music by Kyle Eastwood, Michael Stevens
Cinematography by Tom Stern
Film Editing by Gary Roach
Good script, direction and minority presence
An original coming of age story
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,0
Metascore 6,0
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,5
IMDB 6,4
Average critics 6,5
Average public 7,0
Cast: Sabrina Carpenter, Maggie Siff, Danny Trejo
Director: Ani Simon-Kennedy
Writer: Ani Simon-Kennedy
Music by Morgan Kibby
Cinematography by Cailin Yatsko
Film Editing by Ron Dulin
Good personages, images, music and content
Excellent direction
Hats off to the director for having succeeded in showing a totalitarian society with less than 10 personages and not one word said!
Great costumes and use of objects
By the way, the movie is dated 2013 but it could have very well been filmed today, in our (not yet post) COVID-19 world.
IMDB 6,8
Cast: Viktoría Rós Antonsdóttir, Davið Laufdal Arnarsson, Bryndis Petra Bragadóttir
Director: Ani Simon-Kennedy
Writers: Hrafn Jonsson, Ani Simon-Kennedy, Cailin Yatsko
Music by Hjaltalin
Cinematography by Cailin Yatsko
Film Editing by Perry Blackshear
Good script and direction
Excellent personages, minority representation and message
Strong acting, elliptic end
IMDB 6,5
TMDB 6,1
Original title: La Fête est Finie
Cast: Zita Hanrot, Clémence Boisnard, Marie Denarnaud
Director: Marie Garel-Weiss
Writers: Marie Garel-Weiss, Salvatore Lista
Music by Pierre Allio, Ferdinand Berville
Cinematography by Samuel Lahu
Film Editing by Guerric Catala, Riwanon Le Beller
Good script and gender content
Excellent personages, direction, music, message, and expression
Top images
The sad story of parents that are confronted with their terminally ill child, told in a very unusual way
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,6
Metascore 7,7
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,0
IMDB 7,2
TMDB 6,8
Average critics 8,0
Average public 7,3
Cast: Eliza Scanlen, Michelle Lotters, Toby Wallace
Director: Shannon Murphy
Writer: Rita Kalnejais
Music by Amanda Brown
Cinematography by Andrew Commis
Film Editing by Stephen Evans
Good script, direction, gender content, and message
Top minority presence
Good first feature about an 18-year-old girl who has to chose between caring for her father (a veteran with PTSD) and a life of her own
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,7
Metascore 7,9
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,6
IMDB 6,6
TMDB 5,6
Average critics 8,1
Average public 6,6
Cast: Camila Morrone, James Badge Dale, Calvin Demba
Director: Annabelle Attanasio
Writer: Annabelle Attanasio
Music by Angel Deradoorian, Brian McOmber
Cinematography by Conor Murphy
Film Editing by Henry Hayes
Good personages, dialogues, gender content, minority presence and expression
Good movie although the “positive” side is a bit forced
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,1
Metascore 7,1
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,6
IMDB 6,9
Average critics 7,7
Average public 7,3
Cast: Molly McCann, Clare Dunne, Ruby Rose O’Hara
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Writers: Clare Dunne
Music by Natalie Holt
Cinematography by Tom Comerford
Film Editing by Rebecca Lloyd
Good personages, gender content, minority representation, message, and expression
Excellent script and direction
Top images
A pearl of a movie, light, delightful, and full of palpable tensions
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,0
Metascore 8,2
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,6
IMDB 7,8
TMDB 8,1
Average critics 7,9
Average public 8,2
Original title: Que Horas Ela Volta?
Cast: Regina Casé, Helena Albergaria, Michel Joelsas
Director: Anna Muylaert
Writer: Anna Muylaert
Music by Vitor Araújo , Fábio Trummer
Cinematography by Barbara Alvarez
Film Editing by Karen Harley
Good dialogues, images, minority presence and expression
Excellent script, personages and direction
Top content
A movie that brings three personages together… The spectator is taken from one to the other, until one realizes that it’s the event itself – unique and powerful, even though extremely sad – that is central to their being and staying together until…
A movie whose mysterious attraction is uncovered slowly, even though we know almost right from the start what it’s all about.
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,3
Metascore 5,7
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 9,0
IMDB 7,3
TMDB 6,7
Average critics 6,8
Average public 7,7
Cast: Dakota Johnson, Casey Affleck, Jason Segel, Isabella Kai, Violet McGraw
Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Writers: Brad Ingelsby
based on the article entitled ‘The Friend’ by Matthew Teague
Music by Rob Simonsen
Cinematography by Joe Anderson
Film Editing by Colin Patton
Gabriela Cowperthwaite has also directed
Good personages, images, music, gender content and minority representation
Excellent script, direction and expression
Great: the movie gets slowly thicker, and the action picks up in the last half hour or so
Beautiful acting by Rachel Nrosnahan / enjoy the camera during the disco attack
One of the most original thrillers I’ve seen in a long time
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,9
Metascore 6,3
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,2
IMDB 6,2
TMDB 5,9
Average critics 7,3
Average public 6,1
Cast: Rachel Brosnahan, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Arinzé Kene
Director: Julia Hart
Writers: Julia Hart, Jordan Horowitz
Music by ASKA
Cinematography by Bryce Fortner
Film Editing by
Shayar Bhansali, Tracey Wadmore-Smith
Also directed by Julia Hart:
Good personages, dialogues, humor, music, and message
Excellent script and direction
Top gender content and minority representation
Very enjoyable but corrosive movie about discrimination and hypocrisy in a French village not yet touched by the sexual revolution of the sixties but in which sex plays a central role
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 4,0
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 6,9
TMDB 6,6
Average critics 4,0
Average public 6,8
Original title: La Fiancée du Pirate
Cast: Bernadette Lafont, Georges Géret, Henri Czarniak
Director: Nelly Kaplan
Writers: Nelly Kaplan (story), Claude Makovski (story) | 5 more credits »
Music by Georges Moustaki
Cinematography by Jean Badal
Film Editing by Noëlle Boisson, Nelly Kaplan, Gérard Pollicand
One of the worst films I’ve ever seen… despite its woman-friendly allure
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,4
Metascore 6,6
Roger Ebert 6,3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 4,4
Average critics 6,4
Average public 4,4
Cast: Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, Beulah Koale
Director: Roseanne Liang
Writers: Max Landis, Roseanne Liang
Music by Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper
Cinematography by Kit Fraser
Film Editing by Tom Eagles
Weak script
Poor personages and dialogues
Insignificant message
Remotely allegorical over dementia, with an unbearable ominous use of ‘eerie’ sounds, and a dialogue that is limited to 2 words [Spoiler ahead: Mum and Gran]
The empty and hollow relationships between the personages make this movie an horrible moment to go through. Better pass your way! However, the critics loved it…
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,6
Metascore 7,6
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 4,8
IMDB 5,9
Average critics 7,6
Average public 5,4
Cast: Robyn Nevin, Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote, Chris Bunton
Director: Natalie Erika James
Writer: Natalie Erika James, Christian White
Cinematographer: Charlie Sarroff
Editor: Denise Haratzis, Sean Lahiff
Composer: Brian Reitzell
Except for the last scene, nothing much
IMDB 5,7
Original title: Qui Vive
Cast: Reda Kateb, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Rashid Debbouze
Director: Marianne Tardieu
Writers: Nadine Lamari, Marianne Tardieu
Music by Sayem
Cinematography by Jordane Chouzenoux
Film Editing by Thomas Marchand
Good gender content
Excellent script, personages, dialogues, music, message and expressiveness
Top direction, images and minority presence
Dreams and animals as go-between
A movie in which nothing is taken for granted
Loneliness is here expressed with a sobriety exceeding that of a Edward Hopper painting
Great editing and acting / beautiful song by Laura Marling
Rotten Tomatoes Critics —
Metascore 7,7
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,0
IMDB 7,6
Average critics 7,7
Average public 7,8
Original title: Teströl és lélekröl
Cast: Alexandra Borbély, Géza Morcsányi, Réka Tenki
Director: Ildikó Enyedi
Writer: Ildikó Enyedi
Music by Ádám Balázs
Cinematography by Máté Herbai
Film Editing by Károly Szalai
Good script and music
A poetical love story that is at times difficult to follow
Rotten Tomatoes Critics —
Metascore 8,5
Roger Ebert 10,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 6,7
Average critics 9,3
Average public 6,7
Original title: Atlantique
Cast: Mame Bineta Sane, Amadou Mbow, Traore
Director: Mati Diop
Writers: Mati Diop, Olivier Demangel
Music by Fatima Al Qadiri
Cinematography by Claire Mathon
Film Editing by Aël Dallier Vega
Top minority presence
An orphanage in Afghanistan, first occupied bu the Russians, then by the Mujaheddin… We follow a 15-year old boy who escapes the grim reality through singing and dreaming in Bollywood style
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,6
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,0
IMDB 6,6
TMDB —
Average critics 7,6
Average public 7,3
Original title: Parwareshghah
Cast: Quodratollah Qadiri, Anwar Hashimi, Karan Jeet Singh
Director: Shahrbanoo Sadat
Writer: Shahrbanoo Sadat
Cinematography by Virginie Surdej
Film Editing by Alexandra Strauss
Good dialogues, music, gender content and minority representation
Excellent script
Top direction, images and message
A very unusual movie about resisting torture with the strength of one’s mind, about refusing lies (very timely), about sticking to one’s values… Great acting and decors!
Not a critics’ favorite…
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 4,6
Metascore 0,0
Roger Ebert 3,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,4
IMDB 7,0
TMDB 6,9
Average critics 2,8
Average public 7,4
Cast: Madeleine Stowe, Alan Rickman
Director: Radha Bharadwaj
Writer: Radha Bharadwaj
Photographed by Bill Pope
Edited by Lisa Churgin
Music by Richard Einhorn
Good dialogues, humor and message
Excellent script, direction and expression
Top images, music and gender content
Because the system takes the side of the perpetrator, she decides to take justice into her own hands…
A brilliant construct… will probably become a classic
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,0
Metascore 7,2
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,6
IMDB 7,5
Average critics 7,6
Average public 8,1
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie
Director: Emerald Fennell
Writer: Emerald Fennell
Music by Anthony Willis
Cinematography by Benjamin Kracun .
Film Editing by Frédéric Thoraval
Good direction, images, music, message and expression
Excellent personages and gender content
A boy and a girl are attracted to each other but do not know how to get closer
Besides, the movie shows with much nuances how difficult it is to be a teenager, when you don’t know who you are, what you want, and you are just as unsure of the others as you are of yourself
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,2
Metascore 6,8
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,4
IMDB 6,2
Average critics 6,8
Average public 6,3
Cast: Emma Roberts, James Franco, Jack Kilmer
Director: Gia Coppola
Writers: Gia Coppola, James Franco (book)
Music by Devonté Hynes, Robert Schwartzman
Cinematography by Autumn Durald
Film Editing by Leo Scott
Unconvincing script
Excellent images, music and minority presence
The underneath in the title is the place where everyone stores all the pain and all the love…
A piercing voice repeats “she’s pretty, she’s got a pointless mind” …
But as to understand what it’s all about, it’s another story
IMDB 6,9
Cast: Sheila Allen, Jane Arden, Jack Bond
Director: Jane Arden
Writers: Jane Arden
Cinematography by Jack Bond, Aubrey Dewar
Film Editing by David Mingay
Music: Sally Minford
Good script, message and expression
An ambitious first feature based on a very interesting script but a direction that does not fully dominate and develop the story’s potential
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,9
Metascore 6,2
Roger Ebert 5,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 6,8
TMDB 10,0
Average critics 6,0
Average public 8,4
Cast: Teddy Sears, Catherine Eaton, Harris Yulin
Director: Catherine Eaton
Writers: Bryan Delaney, Catherine Eaton | 2 more credits »
Music by Siddhartha Khosla
Cinematography by David Kruta
Film Editing by Marco Perez
Good script, dialogues, music, gender content and expression
Excellent personages, direction and message
Top images and minority representation
A movie about how ephemeral life is and how everything we have is inside us
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,9
Metascore 9,4
Roger Ebert 10,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,0
IMDB 7,6
TMDB 7,7
Average critics 9,4
Average public 7,8
Cast: Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Linda May
Director: Chloé Zhao
Writers: Jessica Bruder (based on the book by), Chloé Zhao (written for the screen by)
Music by Ludovico Einaudi
Cinematography by Joshua James Richards
Film Editing by Chloé Zhao
Unpretentious movie made with little means but has good acting and light humor
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,7
Metascore 6,6
Roger Ebert 6,3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,0
IMDB 5,5
Average critics 6,5
Average public 6,3
Cast: Sunita Mani, John Reynolds, Ben Sinclair
Directors: Alex Huston Fischer, Eleanor Wilson
Writers: Alex Huston Fischer, Eleanor Wilson
Music by Andrew Orkin
Cinematography by Matt Clegg
Film Editing by Sofi Marshall
Good direction and gender content
A man tries to uncover the past of a guy he met at the Jordan border and who doesn’t say anything about hinself
Rotten Tomatoes Critics —
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,4
IMDB 5,4
TMDB 5,0
Average critics —
Average public 5,6
Cast: Melvil Poupaud, Alexander Siddig, Darina Al Joundi
Director: Danielle Arbid
Writer: Danielle Arbid
Cinematography by Céline Bozon
Film Editing by Nelly Quettier
Good script, direction, minority representation and expression
Excellent images and music
A delicate intimacy predominates though at times clouded by a forced dramaturgy
Highly appreciated movie by critics and public
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 9,0
Metascore 9,5
Roger Ebert 10,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 9,2
IMDB 8,1
TMDB 8,3
Average critics 9,5
Average public 8,5
Cast: Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami
Director: Céline Sciamma
Writer: Céline Sciamma
Music by Jean-Baptiste de Laubier, Arthur Simonini
Cinematography by Claire Mathon
Film Editing by Julien Lacheray
Good direction, images, gender content, minority presence and message
Excellent music and expression
The situations in which this young and once beautiful but now monstrous looking woman has to go through every day are so awful that you really wonder where she gets the strength to survive.
But what makes the story even more painful (!!!) is the stupidity of the world around her, of her world… At the end of the day, it might just be this hopeless stupidity that makes her unbreakable
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,4
Metascore 7,5
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,2
IMDB 6,4
Average critics 7,5
Average public 6,3
Cast: Vicky Knight, Katherine Kelly, Eliza Brady-Girard
Director: Sacha Polak
Writers: Sacha Polak, Susie Farrell
Music by Rutger Reinders
Cinematography by Ruben Impens
Film Editing by Sander Vos
Good script, dialogues and images
Excellent personages
Top direction, gender content, minority presence and message
Raw, documentary-like movie inside a Paris police force that deals with sex offenders and minors
Strong emotions, not for the fainthearted
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,8
Metascore 7,4
Roger Ebert 6,3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,6
IMDB 7,3
Average critics 6,8
Average public 7,5
Original title: Polisse
Cast: Karin Viard, JoeyStarr, Marina Foïs, Maïwenn, Emmanuelle Bercot
Director: Maïwenn
Writers: Maïwenn (screenplay), Emmanuelle Bercot (screenplay)
Music by Stephen Warbeck
Cinematography by Pierre Aïm
Film Editing by Yann Dedet, Laure Gardette
Good script, dialogues, humor, images, music, gender content and message
Excellent personages, direction and expression
A movie about passion and the pains of love, a love story full of surprises
Vincent Cassell in one of his best performances
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,7
Metascore 6,8
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,4
IMDB 7,1
Average critics 7,4
Average public 7,3
Original Title: Mon Roi
Cast: Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Bercot, Louis Garrel
Director: Maïwenn
Writers: Etienne Comar (screenplay), Maïwenn (screenplay)
Music by Stephen Warbeck
Cinematography by Claire Mathon
Film Editing by Simon Jacquet
Weak dialogues and expression
Poor script and message
An infantile (with all due respect to the children among us) story… and a very uninspired presence by Gillian Jacobs
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,8
Metascore 6,8
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,0
IMDB 5,6
Average critics 7,0
Average public 5,8
Cast: Gillian Jacobs, Jemaine Clement, Josh Wiggins
Director: Kris Rey
Writer: Kris Rey
Music by Curtis Heath
Cinematography by Nate Hurtsellers
Film Editing by Zach Clark
Good script and message
Excellent gender content
Top minority representation
A fine and too heavy movie about the choices and decisions a pregnant woman has to make between her career and motherhood. The movie brings also the disadvantages African-Amerocans face into perspective, disadvantages that even their (caucasian) teacher has difficulty to fathom.
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,6
Metascore 6,5
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,4
IMDB 5,9
Average critics 6,9
Average public 6,2
Cast: Cobie Smulders, Anders Holm, Gail Bean
Director: Kris Rey
Writers: Megan Mercier, Kris Rey (as Kris Swanberg)
Music by Keegan DeWitt
Cinematography by Dagmar Weaver-Madsen
Film Editing by Zach Clark
Weak script, personages
Undecipherable message
A woman who wants to die after a break-up spreads her obsession to others… As obscure as a David Lynch…
Some original filming in the way the senses are represented – hearing, touching, breathing, seeing – but it does not involve those of the viewer, unfortunately
On the tracks of her previous film, but much less convincing
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,2
Metascore 8,0
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 5,2
Average critics 8,0
Average public 5,2
Cast: Kate Lyn Sheil, Jane Adams, Kentucker Audley, Katie Aselton
Director: Amy Seimetz
Writer: Amy Seimetz
Cinematographer: Jay Keitel
Editor: Kate Brokaw
Composer: Mondo Boys
Good personages, direction, images and music
Excellent dialogues, gender content, minority presence and emotional charge
Some far-fetched twists take the attention away from a beautiful story.
IMDB 5,9
Cast: Zoe Ventoura, Kayla Radomski, Cale Ferrin
Director: Nicole Conn
Writer: Nicole Conn
Music by Nami Melumad
Cinematography by Seth Wessel-Estes
Film Editing by Nicole Conn, David C. Eichhorn
Good personages and dialogues
A couple has tried everything to have a child, without success. He and she try to cope with the situation together, but cannot avoid to respond differently to it
IMDB 5,8
Original title: Was Wir Wollten
Cast: Lavinia Wilson, Elyas M’Barek, Anna Unterberger
Director: Ulrike Kofler
Writers: Sandra Bohle, Ulrike Kofler
Cinematography by Robert Oberrainer
Film Editing by Marie Kreutzer
Good personages and music
Excellent gender content
Top minority representation
A look at the macho and patriarchal world of a ‘tinker’ community in post-Second World War Ireland
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,8
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,0
IMDB 5,7
Average critics 5,8
Average public 6,4
Cast: Hazel Doupe, Dara Devaney, Johnny Collins
Director: Carmel Winters
Writer: Carmel Winters
Cinematography by Michael Lavelle
Film Editing by Julian Ulrichs
Good script, personages, dialogues and gender content
Excellent message
A look at the world of a Koreanse teenage girl in search for love at home and at school, and how difficult for her it is to make any sense of what she experiences
A delicate, very slow-paced first feature
Loved by critics
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,4
Metascore 8,8
Roger Ebert 10,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,4
IMDB 7,4
Average critics 9,1
Average public 7,4
Cast: Ji-hu Park, Sae-byeok Kim, Seung-Yun Lee
Director: Bora Kim
Writer: Bora Kim
Music by Matija Strnisa
Cinematography by Guk-hyun Kang
Film Editing by Zoe Sua Cho
Good gender content
How difficult it is to tell your parents you’re gay!
This movie is filled with cliches, but its message is said unsubtly loud and clear.
Anyway, in the end everyone is happy for having tried their best… without succeeding.
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,9
Metascore 7,2
Roger Ebert 3,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,8
IMDB 7,0
Average critics 6,0
Average public 7,9
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, Mary Steenburgen
Director: Clea DuVall
Writers: Clea DuVall
Music by Amie Doherty
Cinematography by John Guleserian
Film Editing by Melissa Bretherton
Good personages and direction
A dominant woman imposes her fears (of marriage, of having children) to her friends
Interesting subject but the handling lacks nuances
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,4
Metascore 5,7
Roger Ebert 5,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,4
IMDB 6,0
Average critics 5,7
Average public 6,2
Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Jason Ritter, Skylar Bernon
Director: Clea DuVall
Writer: Clea DuVall
Music by Sara Quin
Cinematography by Polly Morgan
Film Editing by Tamara Meem
Good humor
Excellent personages, dialogues, images, music and gender content
Top script, direction, minority presence and message
A topper as cinema-vérité goes: not only is everyone and everything in the right place, but that you can’t imagine it any other way
A two-level movie: in one, an artist tries to stay true to her art and fails; in the other, she makes a movie that is itself the realization of an artistic expression unspoiled by compromises. The way Radha Blank succeeds in merging the two facets of a same message is an exceptional achievement.
Great scenes of rap battles.
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,1
Metascore 8,0
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,6
IMDB 7,1
Average critics 8,3
Average public 6,9
Cast: Radha Blank, Oswin Benjamin, Peter Kim
Director: Radha Blank
Writer: Radha Blank
Cinematography by Eric Branco
Film Editing by Robert Grigsby Wilson
Good music
A chaos of a script that scatters bits and pieces everywhere, what makes the story inconsistent.
Another high-school movie, but with a twist, approaching subjects as being black without black friends or being bi-sexual for a man, etc. Unfortunately, the movie does not go anywhere deep in…
Interesting musical score by Heather Christian… as chaotic as the script 🙂
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,6
Metascore 5,7
Roger Ebert 5,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,2
IMDB 4,2
Average critics 5,4
Average public 5,2
Cast: Cailee Spaeny, Zoey Luna, Lovie Simone
Director: Zoe Lister-Jones
Writers: Zoe Lister-Jones, Peter Filardi
Music by Heather Christian
Cinematography by Hillary Spera
Film Editing by Libby Cuenin
Good script, direction and images
In the end we’d like to know more about this secretive personage… but you will have to fill it in yourself for not much of an explanation is given
That fits perfectly the setting, the continuous intermingling of the past with the present in Luxor also haunting Hana (Andrea Riseborough)… beautiful and rich surroundings that impregnate you without you being aware…
A contemplative movie that sets lots of thoughts in motion…
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,8
Metascore 0,0
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 5,6
IMDB 5,3
Average critics 5,2
Average public 5,5
Cast: Andrea Riseborough, Michael Landes, Shirin Redha
Director: Zeina Durra
Writer: Zeina Durra
Music by Nascuy Linares
Cinematography by Zelmira Gainza
Film Editing by Andrea Chignoli, Matyas Fekete
After one hour, you wonder what is still to be said in the second hour of the movie, but surprise, it gives you the best part, bringing the personages and their relationship closer
Some insipid songs make the score most annoying
A movie that has been well liked by the public, but not so by critics
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,1
Metascore 5,5
Roger Ebert 0,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,8
IMDB 7,5
Average critics 3,9
Average public 8,2
Cast: Priyanka Chopra, Farhan Akhtar, Zaira Wasim
Director: Shonali Bose
Writers: Shonali Bose, Juhi Chaturvedi (hindi dialogue) | 1 more credit »
Music by Mikey McCleary
Cinematography by Andrew Alderslade, Nick Cooke, Kartik Vijay
Film Editing by Manas Mittal
Good personages, dialogues, music, gender content,
minority presence and message
Excellent direction
An 11-year-old girl is caught between the African traditions of her family and the modern-day world, between the childhood that she leaves behind and the unknown of becoming a woman and discovering her sexualized body
Note the enormous discrepancy between public and critics’ score!
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,0
Metascore 6,7
Roger Ebert 10
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 2,4
IMDB 3,0
Average critics 7,9
Average public 2,7
Original title: Mignonnes
Cast: Fathia Youssouf, Médina El Aidi-Azouni, Esther Gohourou
Directors: Maïmouna Doucouré, Denny Shoopman
Writer: Maïmouna Doucouré (screenplay)
Music by Nicolas Nocchi
Cinematography by Yann Maritaud
Film Editing by Stéphane Mazalaigue, Mathilde Van de Moortel
Good images, gender content, minority representation and message
A world where people speak Russian, Tagalog, Cebuano… and English
A world in which you has to pay a man to get married (for a green card), a world of transsexuals… The open end makes you wonder….
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,2
Metascore 6,1
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,4
IMDB 6,1
Average critics 6,9
Average public 6,3
Cast: Eamon Farren, Lynn Cohen, Mark Nelson
Director: Isabel Sandoval
Writer: Isabel Sandoval
Music by Teresa Barrozo
Cinematography by Isaac Banks
Good music and minority presence
Excellent personages, humor, direction and images
Top script, dialogues, gender content and message
In hell, an openly lesbian woman shares her space with a man who is a traitor and a coward, and another woman who is vain, adulterous and has committed infanticide. An extraordinary play (by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944) that grounded existentialism, and an impressive direction by pioneer Jacqueline Audry
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,4
IMDB 6,8
Cast: Arletty, Frank Villard, Gaby Sylvia
Director: Jacqueline Audry
Writers: Pierre Laroche, Jean-Paul Sartre (play)
Music by Joseph Kosma
Cinematography by Robert Juillard
Film Editing by Marguerite Beaugé
Good script, personages, dialogues, direction, gender content and minority presence
Excellent message
A movie that penetrates you slowly while it builds its personages up thoroughly
A coming of age story that reaches deeper and goes further because it avoids superficiality and cliches
A movie that shows that intimacy is not a consequence of sex but of knowing each other
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,1
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,0
IMDB 6,3
Average critics 6,1
Average public 6,7
Cast: Tatiana Maslany, Spencer Van Wyck, Steven McCarthy
Director: Kate Melville
Writer: Kate Melville
Cinematography by Celiana Cárdenas
Film Editing by Dev Singh
Good images
A large orthodox Jewish family mourns one of their brothers. The numerous personages make it difficult to discern who’s who. This story gets a follow-up in Gett.
IMDB 6,9
Cast: Ronit Elkabetz, Moshe Ivgy, Yaël Abecassis
Directors: Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz
Writers: Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz
Music by Michel Korb, Sergio Leonardi
Cinematography by Yaron Scharf
Film Editing by Joel Alexis
Good dialogues, direction and images
Excellent script and gender content
Top personages and message
A moving eulogy to mothers… but also more than that: the daughter is played by two actresses, not for a split-personality touch but to forge a mirror to the rich and complex person that was their mother… An emotionally rich movie
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,0
Metascore 7,3
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,6
IMDB 6,2
Average critics 8,0
Average public 6,9
Cast: Amy Nostbakken, Norah Sadava, Maev Beaty
Director: Patricia Rozema
Writers: Amy Nostbakken, Patricia Rozema
Music by Amy Nostbakken
Cinematography by Catherine Lutes
Film Editing by Lara Johnston
Weak humor, direction, minority presence and message
Warning: spoiler ahead!
The scenario of Radius, gives you science-fiction, gives you a thriller, gives you a guy with extraordinary powers, gives you mystery, and involves a twin-sister and a serial killer on top of it… not to forget a spark of romance…
But that doesn’t guarantee a good movie, especially when it’s all told in flashbacks that break the pulse of the thriller… A pity for an intersting story: a man and a woman cannot be too far from each other physically otherwise everyone who stands between them dies..
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,3
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,8
IMDB 6,2
Average critics 7,3
Average public 6,5
Cast: Diego Klattenhoff, Charlotte Sullivan, Brett Donahue
Directors: Caroline Labrèche, Steeve Léonard
Writers: Caroline Labrèche, Caroline Labrèche | 2 more credits »
Music by Benoît Charest
Cinematography by Simon Villeneuve
Film Editing by Steeve Léonard
Good script and message
Excellent gender content and minority representation
A young single mother of two is too proud to tell that she’s HIV positive and has to struggle to gather the money she needs to start a business
Although the movie leaves behind the idea that it was made as a vehicle to convince African women with HIV to come out of their isolation, it also illustrates the harsh reality of the life these women have, and the role the community plays in their life
IMDB 6,7
Cast: Bello Rashid, Nkwabi Elias Ng’angasamala, Sesilia Florian Kilimila
Director: Leanne Welham
Writers: Sophie Harman, Leanne Welham
Music by Tim Morrish
Cinematography by Craig Dean Devine
Film Editing by Kant Pan
Good script, personages, direction and images
Top gender content and message
A world of women in which men are either away at war or drunk.
The story of two girls who have just gone through puberty and are obliged to play their adult female social role without having the possibility of a “coming of age”
A good account of how the rich life of girls is transformed into a life of slavery as they become women, and a good representation of patriarchal rule in all its non-sense
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,2
Metascore 7,2
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,6
IMDB 7,6
Average critics 7,2
Average public 7,6
Cast: Lika Babluani, Mariam Bokeria, Zurab Gogaladze
Directors: Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß (as Simon Gross)
Writer: Nana Ekvtimishvili
Cinematography by Oleg Mutu
Film Editing by Stefan Stabenow
Good personages, humor, images and music
Excellent script, dialogues and gender content
Top direction
As often before, Kathryn Bigelow has made a sober film of dramatic events that could have givem way to much more exuberance in emotional situations as in historical perspective(s)
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,6
Metascore 9,5
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,0
IMDB 7,4
Average critics 8,5
Average public 7,7
Cast: Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Writer: Mark Boal
Music by Alexandre Desplat
Cinematography by Greig Fraser
Film Editing by William Goldenberg, Dylan Tichenor
A positive aspect of the movie is to bring clearly forward a patriarchal society whose chief (Confucian) value is honor. Unfortunately, the message – honor your father – is hammered in a nauseating way. That Disney had to please Xi Jing Ping is no surprise. But that Nikki Caro (The Zookeeper’s wife, North Country, Whale rider…) agreed to direct this is baffling
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,8
Metascore 6,6
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,0
IMDB 5,4
Average critics 7,4
Average public 5,7
Cast: Yifei Liu, Donnie Yen, Li Gong
Director: Niki Caro
Writers: Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver
Music by Harry Gregson-Williams
Cinematography by Mandy Walker
Film Editing by David Coulson
Good dialogues
Could have been a nice movie about finding out where one belongs, if it wasn’t a movie that reenacts the core Confucian values of patriarchy with an omnipresent father who, beyond death, binds the whole network of women related to him (a wife and three daughters). Even his son in law and the restaurant staff seem to exist only because of him. Honor your father! is the message
The end confirms the emotional and dependent status of women (according to Confucianism).
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,3
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,8
IMDB 6,7
Average critics 8,3
Average public 7,3
Cast: Sammi Cheng, Megan Lai, Xiaofeng Li
Director: Heiward Mak
Writer: Heiward Mak
Cinematography by S.K. Yip
Film Editing by Siu-Hong Chung, Heiward Mak
Good humor and direction
Excellent gender content and message
Everyone is doing it but no one admits it!
A teenage girl tries to understand why she’s being rekected as a weirdo-psycho pervert for wanting to discover sex while she sees everyone around her doing it… Fortunaltely, sex is lately a bit more libertated, but hypocrisy still prevails
Interesting ending scene between the girl and the priest
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,2
Metascore 7,1
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,6
IMDB 6,0
Average critics 7,3
Average public 6,8
Cast: Natalia Dyer, Francesca Reale, Alisha Boe
Director: Karen Maine
Writer: Karen Maine
Music by Ian Hultquist
Cinematography by Todd Antonio Somodevilla
Film Editing by Jennifer Lee
Good script and images
Excellent personages and direction
Top score: minorities
This movie makes the world a very human place, with people understanding and sharing the pain suffered by others!
One of the best movie over father-son relationship
Despite the subject – a terminally ill father must find a way for his autistic son to survive without him, – the only sentimentality comes from the music.
Excellent first feature!
Cast: Jet Li, Zhang Wen, Lun-Mei Kwei
Director: Xiaolu Xue
Writer: Xiaolu Xue
Music by Joe Hisaishi
Cinematography by Christopher Doyle
Film Editing by William Chang, Hongyu Yang
Good script, direction, gender content and message
Excellent personages and minority representation
Top images
A movie that shows, without Hollywood artifacts, the slow transformation of a man who takes advantage of the war to make money on the black market by selling the valuables left behind by the Jews, to become a more conscious and engaged person who, without really wanting to, will go to extreme length to hide 11 Jews from the Nazis.
Nominated for an oscar
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,6
Metascore 7,4
Roger Ebert 6,3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,8
IMDB 7,3
Average critics 7,1
Average public 7,6
Cast: Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Fürmann, Agnieszka Grochowska
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Writers: Robert Marshall (book), David F. Shamoon
Music by Antoni Lazarkiewicz
Cinematography by Jolanta Dylewska
Film Editing by Michal Czarnecki
Good personages and message
Excellent minority presence
A good story but chaotic and clumsy direction
heavy-handed musical score
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,5
Metascore 6,7
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 9,2
IMDB 5,6
Average critics 7,3
Average public 7,4
Cast: Sarah Megan Thomas, Stana Katic, Radhika Apte
Director: Lydia Dean Pilcher
Writer: Sarah Megan Thomas
Music by Lillie Rebecca McDonough
Cinematography by Robby Baumgartner, Miles Goodall
Film Editing by Paul Tothill
Good dialogues, music and minorities presence
Excellent script, personages, direction, images,
gender content and message
The complex story of two sisters (14 and 10) who have put their father on a pedestal and cannot accept the fact that he is but just a man.
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,5
Metascore 7,8
Roger Ebert 10,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,6
IMDB 7,3
Average critics 8,4
Average public 8,0
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Jurnee Smollett, Meagan Good
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Writer: Kasi Lemmons
Music by Terence Blanchard
Cinematography by Amy Vincent
Film Editing by Terilyn A. Shropshire
Good dialogues, humor, images and music
Excellent personages, direction and minority presence
The story of a friendship, with its complementary motivation and inevitable disappointments
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,9
Metascore 6,9
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,0
IMDB 7,3
Average critics 7,5
Average public 7,7
Cast: Don Cheadle, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Bruce McFee
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Writers: Michael Genet, Rick Famuyiwa
Music by Terence Blanchard
Cinematography by Stéphane Fontaine
Film Editing by Terilyn A. Shropshire
Good music and gender content
Top minorities representation and message
The story of a great woman that could have been told less straightforwardly
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6.6
Metascore 6,6
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 9,4
IMDB 6,5
Average critics 4,7
Average public 8,0
Cast: Cynthia Erivo, Janelle Monáe, Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Story by Gregory Allen Howard
Writer: Gregory Allen Howard, Kasi Lemmons
Cinematographer: John Toll
Editor: Wyatt Smith
Composer: Terence Blanchard
Good personages, images and gender content
Excellent direction and music
Using a nuclear plant as background provides added tension and insecurity to a love story that is born out of the attraction between two bodies
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,5
Metascore 7,3
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,4
IMDB 6,2
Average critics 6,9
Average public 6,3
Cast: Tahar Rahim, Léa Seydoux, Olivier Gourmet
Director: Rebecca Zlotowski
Writers: Gaëlle Macé, Rebecca Zlotowski |
Music by Robin Coudert
Cinematography by Georges Lechaptois
Film Editing by Julien Lacheray
Good script, personages, dialogues and music
Excellent direction
Fascinating movie, although I can’t really put the finger on why I couldn’t stop watching… Maybe it’s just because, as it is said in the end, it suggests expectations that you better not have, but that you should never losing hope.
Nice musical score
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 4,8
Metascore 4,4
Roger Ebert 5,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 4,8
IMDB 4,6
Average critics 4,7
Average public 4,7
Cast: Natalie Portman, Lily-Rose Depp, Emmanuel Salinger
Director: Rebecca Zlotowski
Writers: Rebecca Zlotowski, Robin Campillo
Music by Robin Coudert
Cinematography by Georges Lechaptois
Film Editing by Julien Lacheray
Good music, gender content and message
A double love story one generation apart in which one sacrifices the relationship to fulfill their self-realization
A movie about how difficult we find it to say what we mean, sometimes just saying the opposite of what we wanted to express
A movie with many facets – some barely sketched, like the photographic aspect – that could have been more condensed (like 20 minutes shorter…)
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,6
Metascore 6,2
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,4
IMDB 5,9
Average critics 6,8
Average public 7,2
Cast: Issa Rae, Chanté Adams, LaKeith Stanfield
Director: Stella Meghie
Writer: Stella Meghie
Cinematographer: Mark Schwartzbard
Editor: Shannon Baker Davis
Composer: Robert Glasper
Weak message
Some well-carved personages, but a story that does not get us anywhere
IMDB 6,5
Cast: Claudia Maree Mailer, Ciaran Byrne, James Sutorius
Director: Jennifer Gelfer
Writer: John Buffalo Mailer
Music by Greg Camp
Cinematography by Julia Swain
Film Editing by Jim Mol
MdW - Movies directed by Women 